[Sigia-l] Taxonomists vs. information architects

[Marcia Morante]

I completely agree with Denise.  Taxonomy development is an integral part of
IA and content organization and structuring in any of its many forms, is
fundamental.  I've consulted with many companies who share this view and
recognize that ther bottom line is strongly associated with the ability to
find information quickly and efficiently.  Search engines and content
management systems have improved over the years, but they're still just
tools that need to be integrated with the vocabularies that users will
understand and be able to use efficiently.

Marcia

Marcia Morante
K Curve, Inc.
(718)881-5915 - office
(917)821-2087 - mobile
http://www.kcurve.com

    

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> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Taxonomists vs. information architects
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> Jean,
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> It is absolutely true for us.   The various types of 
> taxonomies that we develop
> are implemented as core enterprise architecture structures.   
> These structures
> (classification structures - hierarchical taxonomies) can be 
> the backbone of a
> website.   The future (and not too distant) lies in our 
> ability to leverage
> different kinds of taxonomies as enterprise architecture 
> components to data drive content to different views, portals 
> and the more traditional website architecture.  I think the 
> question is a larger one, perhaps -- how does
> "semantic information management" fit into information 
> architecture?   When you
> ask the question from this perspective, SOA (Service Oriented 
> Architecture),
> metadata repositories and utilities become the focus point.   
> And, taxonomies
> and information architecture blend.   There are other aspects 
> to information
> architiecture that do not pertain to data structures (which 
> is what taxonomies are at base), but you cannot do 
> information architecture going forward without
> understanding taxonomies.   For example, if you consider 
> enterprise search to be
> a component of information architecture, it is difficult to 
> engineer a robust enterprise search architecture without 
> first considering faceted taxonomies (metadata), hierarchical 
> taxonomies (classification schemes), and semantic 
> networks/thesauri (network taxonomies).
> 
> Best regards,
> Denise Bedford
> 
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> One of our members recently asked me whether taxonomists and 
> information architects (IA's) do the same kind of work. In 
> her experience, taxonomists develop linguistic tools and IA's 
> apply them to Web sites. But is this true in other companies? 
> Does the work of taxonomists and IA's overlap, and if so how? 
> We might also ask where does the enterprise architect or 
> knowledge base editor fit in?
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> If you are performing in any of these roles - taxonomist, 
> information architect, enterprise architect, knowledge base 
> editor - I would like to hear about what you do and how your 
> work relates to these other jobs. Your remarks can be "off 
> the record," and you can remain anonymous if we use anything 
> you say for a future article for the Montague Institute Review.
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> Jean Graef
> The Montague Institute
> jean.graef at montague.com
> www.montague.com
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